Saturday, December 12, 2009

The Last Actor: Pickup Shoot Day 1

Shot some stuff for the montage today.

Cracked 6 eggs into a glass. Tried to chug it. Mixed results.

Really happy with everything we shot today. Went to Dogtown after the shoot and had an excellent Cincinnati Reg Dog footlong.

Friday, December 11, 2009

Hell Yes

So Natalie Portman has singed on to star in the film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Fucking Rad.

I want to direct this.



Original Article.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

MNTS

I need to be where there are mountains.

This flat land of Rochacha is so depressing.

That's pretty much it.

MEGA REVIEW

Bunch of reviews of Recent things:

-Brand New Concert 11/24
Went to see Jesse Lacy and the gang with a very rad friend at the Dome arena in Henrietta. They played a really good set of songs from their last three albums. At the beginning it was pretty gross cuz we were almost crushed by the magnitude of sweaty smelly peoples. But after getting out of the pit it was quite enjoyable. Third time seeing them in concert, and third time it was awesome.



-Matisyahu Concert 12/8
My roommate got a bunch of free tickets to this a few days ago, so me and all my roommates and some other friends went to the Main Street Armory to checkedy check it out. One word description? Pretty fuckin Rad. Matisyahu is wicked good at beat boxing and again overall really fun and good music. Plus the second to last song he jumped into the crowd which is always really sweet.



-Weezer: Raditude
Bought the new Weezer album with credit left on a gift card. Yes, this isn't close to the classics of the Blue Album or Pinkerton, get over it. Take it as it is. And what is it? It's a pop infused album with some hits and misses. At first listen I only liked the first and last songs, but upon more listening I'm more into much of the other songs in it, especially the track "Can't Stop Partyin" with Lil Wayne, it's just so ridiculous and cheesy (and they know it) it's just awesome. "Party like tomorrow is my funeral, gotta stop mixing alcohol and pharmaceuticals"= pure genius. My favorite song on the album is "Put Me Back Together", nothing too mind bending, but it's fun to listen to and sing along with, and what more do you want?



-Hausu (1977 Japanese Horror Film)
Saw this film at the Dryden on a 35mm print. Idk wtf happened, but it sure did look cool.

just watch this clip and it pretty much sums up the whole movie.



-Almost Famous
Finally got around to watching this film. Yadda yadda yadda, good coming of age story, but the thing that bugged me the most about this film was Kate Hudson, i just find her annoying and not a very good actress, but that's just my opinion. Billy Crudup is really good in it and it's also really interesting to see that Zooey Deschanel hasn't aged a bit in 9 years.



-The Killer
Watched this Hong Kong John Woo film for the first time. Melodrama+Guns+Bullets+White Doves+Slow Motion+Squibs Galore=A good damn time. Looking forward to checking out Hard Boiled sometime in the near future.




more reviews to be added tomorrow......

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

T-Shirt Design

I designed this T-shirt for a t-shirt design competition the RIT Rock Climbing club is having.

Just whipped it up, not a final version, but you get the just of it.

some seriously serious acting

Me doing some acting in my friend Ralph's film "Rubberwub". Checkedy-check it out.


Opening shot to Rubberwub from Ralph Mastromonaco on Vimeo.

Monday, November 30, 2009

The Sun

Dear Sun,

I'm going to miss you. Why must you leave me at 5pm? We should hang out more. Maybe I'll see you this summer, take care.

Dan





Dear Readers,

Got back to the Rochester the other night after a stuffed thanksgiving week of traveling, get togethers and eating. Did stand up last night at the Boulder Open mic, was really fun. Did all new stuff making it up as I went of just true stories that happened to me over break.

Time to finish my movie and get out of here, to wherever, i'll tell ya when i get there.

Dan

Monday, November 23, 2009

on Twitter

Dear Readers,

So I tried to make a twitter for my movie The Last Actor, but it just reactivated my old one, so i just made some changes and now i bring you:

http://twitter.com/TheLastActor

Will be putting on daily updates on the ongoing adventure that is the The Last Actor film written directed and starring yours truly. A little shameless self promotion. If I'm not going to promote it, who is? Exactly. And I'm not James Cameron (yet) with 200 million dollars to promote my film, so we're going with the twitterverse for now, then an official website to come sometime in January.

No rest til this thing is done. I've had it with all this other crap getting in the way. It's movie time.

Rock On,

DAN